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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Chicken fried rice

Leftover chicken and rice. Hottest pan, egg, soy, scallion. Don't start with steaming grains or it becomes a stew.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Leftover chicken and rice. Hottest pan, egg, soy, scallion. Don't start with steaming grains or it becomes a stew.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • rice
  • eggs
  • soy sauce
  • scallion

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: ginger, peas.

Method

  1. Cold rice only, ideally a day old. Fresh rice is too wet and you get a pan of porridge with soy sauce in it.
  2. Scramble the eggs first, on their own, and take them out while they are still loose. They will finish later.
  3. Chicken next in a very hot pan, then the rice, pressed flat and left long enough to catch and crisp before you turn it.
  4. Soy sauce down the hot side of the pan rather than onto the rice, then eggs and scallion back in at the very end.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
rice
Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
eggs
The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
soy sauce
Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
scallion
Two ingredients on one stalk.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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